Archive - Alien wonders, beckoning

Spilled milk, broken dishes

Mike, I was intrigued by the back story you shared about the images you created in response to DeFlitch’s poem November.

Sep 28, 2024 •

August 2024

Tritone interval

Paul, Your last selection from Longley’s collection (“The Snow Leopard”) together with that image from deep within the forest up by Mount Douglas is…

Aug 22, 2024 •

July 2024

The bittersweet sadness of the wind in the trees

Mike, As I was re-reading the poem I selected for round 4, I began to think about the mastery Longley uses in showing the reader how the story unfolds…

Jul 24, 2024 •

June 2024

Sometimes the cosmos appears to break itself

Round 4 thoughts (after a lot of thinking and thinking and thinking)

Jun 23, 2024 •

May 2024

A very tardy round 3 response

Mike and I have been very careful about quoting from the poems we are working with, to respect the rights of the authors and publishers.

May 7, 2024 •

February 2024

Feb 10, 2024 •

January 2024

A blaze in the brain

an artistic touch, a splash of birdlime

Jan 12, 2024 •

December 2023

In which I finally come to grips with writing about what I've done these past two months...

Dec 9, 2023 •

November 2023

Ancillary thought #1

In which Mike puts off for a bit long writing about his work for round one...

Nov 13, 2023 •

The Level Crossing

The roll of the dice sent me to page 48 of Michael Longley’s The Weather in Japan, which held the two stanza poem The Level Crossing. As a sometimes…

Nov 2, 2023 •

October 2023

In which Paul's erstwhile project collaborator attempts to discover what he himself is thinking.

Oct 6, 2023 •

Alien wonders, beckoning

Diary of a collaboration

Oct 4, 2023 •

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